A total of 310 archers from 61 teams will participate in the Grameenphone 7th National Archery Championship scheduled to get underway at the Army Stadium, Banani tomorrow.
The 61 affiliated organisations, who will fight for 15 gold medals, are set to take part in three divisions – bamboo bow, recurve bow and compound bow.
A maximum 256 participants including 109 women archers will be taking part in the bamboo bow section. The bamboo bow event is a Bangladeshi version and is set to be introduced for the very first time for the amateur archers while only 54 archers including 20 women archers will be competing in the international events of the 70m recurve bow and 50m compound bow.
State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder will inaugurate the four-day long meet as chief guest.
